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<mods:titleid="201FCBA2819272E98AAB6EF28D58562E">Microlicia deflexa and M. johnwurdackiana (Melastomataceae), two new species from the Brazilian Cerrado</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="65B8589712ECDE33A01D1D81834CCA3B">Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Rua Ceara, s. n., 38400 - 902, Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="21667D85A11404E2BE33DE39164BF65B">Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Rua Ceara, s. n., 38400 - 902, Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil</mods:affiliation>
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<figureCitationid="604B58A549E5632C6709C3B538F4F893"captionStart="Figure 4"captionStartId="F4"captionText="Figure 4. Microlicia johnwurdackiana R. Romero & Valentim A flowering branch B leaf abaxial surface (up) and adaxial surface (down) C floral bud D larger (antesepalous) stamen (on the left) and smaller (antepetalous) stamen (on the right) E capsule in two stages: immature enveloped by the hypanthium (on the right) and mature with hypanthium peeling off (on the left) (A, E A. F. A. Versiane et al. 57 B-D M. L. Viana 4)."figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.181.70949.figure4"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/586941"pageId="0"pageNumber="113">Figs 4</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="0AE67816B15C69D8BFEDF25B07CE265E"captionStart="Figure 5"captionStartId="F5"captionText="Figure 5. Microlicia johnwurdackiana R. Romero & Valentim A cerrado landscape at Uberlandia, Triangulo Mineiro, Brazil, the type locality of M. johnwurdackiana B habit C flowering branches D flower in lateral view E flower in front view, detail of a greenish apex in the petals in the flower bud F immature fruits. Photos: Rosana Romero."figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.181.70949.figure5"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/586942"pageId="0"pageNumber="113">, 5</figureCitation>
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is recognised by its dense indumentum of setose trichomes and spherical, golden glands covering branch, leaf, pedicel, hypanthium and sepal, magenta petal with greenish apex on the abaxial surface and bicolorous and tetraesporangiate anther.
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Subshrub or shrub, 0.3-1 m tall, erect, multi-branched. Stem terete, brownish. Branch fastigiate, younger branch quadrangular, green, densely covered of setose, pale trichomes 0.2-0.3 mm long mixed with spherical, golden glands, older branch sub-quadrangular, brownish, leafless with age. Leaf ascending, not imbricate; petiole ca. 0.3 mm long, leaf rarely sessile; blade 3.5-9.5
1.7-7 mm, leaf with the same size in the main and lateral branches, concolorous (when dry), green-brownish, chartaceous, ovate, acute at the apex, base rounded, margin crenulate, setose-ciliate, both surfaces with a dense indumentum of setose, pale trichomes 0.2-0.3 mm long mixed with spherical, golden glands, 3-veined, rarely 5-veined. Flower 5-merous, solitary, terminal or lateral, perianth actinomorphic; pedicel 0.8-1.2 mm long; hypanthium 2.3-3
ca. 1.5 mm, light green, cylindrical, with a dense indumentum of setose, pale trichomes 0.2-0.3 mm long mixed with spherical, golden glands; calyx tube ca. 0.3 mm long; sepal 1.5-2
1-1.5 mm, vinaceous, triangular, with a dense indumentum of setose, pale trichomes 0.2-0.3 mm long mixed with spherical, golden glands, acute at the apex, with a terminal setose trichome ca. 0.2 mm long; petal 4.5-8
3.5-5 mm, magenta, greenish at the apex on the abaxial surface, obovate, acute or asymmetrically acuminate at the apex, margin entire, with sparse, spherical, golden glands at the apex; stamen 10, dimorphic, anther bicolorous, tetraesporangiate; larger (antesepalous) stamen, with filament 2.5-3 mm long, vinaceous, pedoconnective 1.8-2.5 mm long, vinaceous, ventral appendage ca. 1 mm long, with proximal half magenta, distal half yellow, obtuse at the apex, anther 2-2.5 mm long including beak, vinaceous, ovate-oblong, beak 0.4-0.6 mm long, white; smaller (antepetalous) stamen with filament 2-3 mm long, vinaceous, pedoconnective ca. 0.8 mm long, yellow, ventral appendage ca. 0.1 mm long, yellow, retuse at the apex, anther 1.5-1.8 mm long including beak, yellow, ovate-oblong, beak 0.3-0.5 mm long, yellow; ovary 3-locular, ovate to ovate-elliptic, superior, glabrous; style 4-4.5 mm long, magenta, terete, slightly curved, glabrous; stigma punctiform. Capsule 4-4.5
2-2.5 mm brownish to reddish, globose, dehiscing into 3-valves from the apex, hypanthium and sepals enveloping the entire capsule and peeling off top to bottom as the fruit mature, columella deciduous; seed 0.3-0.5
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<figureCitationid="6E6AC08E80D796E760CE4CA7782BDE86"captionStart="Figure 3"captionStartId="F3"captionText="Figure 3. Geographical distribution of Microlicia deflexa and Microlicia johnwurdackiana in Minas Gerais and Goias States, Brazil."figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.181.70949.figure3"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/586940"pageId="0"pageNumber="113">3</figureCitation>
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), we recommend a conservation status of Critically Endangered [CR B1ab (iii) + 2ab (iii)]. According to the Brazilian Forest Code (Law 12.651/2012), the vereda in rural or urban areas are permanent preservation areas (APP). However, both localities, where
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) for lack of proper documentation, making this area vulnerable, except for the vereda and its surroundings, which is a permanent preservation area. Nevertheless, in recent years, this area has been heavily impacted by periodic fires, predatory collections, real estate speculation and the opening of trails for cyclists in the interior of the cerrado. The other area of occurrence is private property that has been seriously affected by the expansion of agriculture, invasion of exotic
<paragraphid="00D7311A89FC745F142C8D10EED7D8FA"pageId="0"pageNumber="113">Flowers and fruits have been collected from March to May and from July to December.</paragraph>
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). Both species have a dense indumentum of setose trichomes mixed with spherical, golden glands covering branch, leaf, hypanthium and sepal, 5-merous flower, solitary, terminal and lateral, dimorphic stamens with bicolorous and tetrasporangiate anthers.
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), campanulate hypanthium (vs. cylindrical), petal entirely pink (vs. magenta, greenish at the apex on the abaxial surface), rounded at the apex (vs. acute or asymmetrically acuminate), ciliate-glandular margin (vs. with sparse, spherical, golden glands only at the apex) and polysporangiate anther (vs. tetrasporangiate).
), yellow stamens, sometimes with pink spots in the anther (vs. vinaceous anther in the antesepalous whorl and yellow in the antepetalous one) and ovate-triangular sepal with a conspicuous setose trichome ca. 0.8 mm long at the apex (vs. triangular, trichome ca. 0.2 mm long). Table
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